well as doing what howard says, which is cast forward. if he doesn t portray that, that sense of forward movement, you know, he won t have done what george bush in 2004, which was to say i know things are bad in iraq but we re a whole lot more secure than we were before 9/11. he s got to make that sale. you got to figure out did george bush had v a comparable james carville on his flank as opposed to karl rove. what do you make of the statement that 49% of the americans feel that the gop is trying to sabotage the president for personal gain? that s something the president has to talk about but he can t talk about it too much. i don t think he can win the lebs by listing a host of factors and people and institutions to blame for the political and economic predicament he s in. he can let that sink in and he can emphasize it perhaps by pushing some legislation in washington and daring and